Music & Instruments: Page 80

In this video Drum Lesson, you will learn to count sixteenth note triplets. If you've already watched the video lesson on eighth note triplets - the basic "triplet" idea will already make sense to you.

The video on this page explains how to count eighth note triplets. Unlike quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and thirty-second note sub-divisions that divide time in half - eighth note triplets actually divide quarter notes in three.

This beginner drum lesson explains some basic tips that can help you improve your posture at the drum set. Jared explains how to relax your back, shoulder, and arm muscles while playing the drums.

In this video drum lesson, you will learn the two most popular bass drum techniques. This includes the heels-up and heels-down methods. Each have their own advantages and disadvantages, so it is highly recommended that you learn both methods.

Balance the frequencies in your mix using the EQ plug-ins in Pro Tools and get your recordings sounding top notch.

Customize every detail of your virtual set up and get your dream guitar tone right at your computer using Amplitube's Amp Simulator.

Fill up the empty space in your hit tracks with a nice full sounding rhythm guitar part by doubling tracks and adding layers of compression in Pro Tools.

Stay organized and get a rockin' drum mix by controlling and editing your drum tracks using the Track Groups feature in Pro Tools.

Get your fingers working smoothly across the fret board and work out cool licks and note combinations you can incorporate into your playing by adding this Minor Pentatonic fingering exercise into your daily practice routine.

Improve your technique and picking speed and prepare yourself for lightning fast solos and complicated melody lines by practicing this killin' 16th note Minor Pentatonic Scale exercise.

The drag ruff is a foundational rudiment that is required to play several more advanced patterns. It's fairly basic on it's own, but is still usable in a wide variety of drumming styles.

The double paradiddle is a fun rudiment that is based on the single paradiddle. It is a 12 note pattern that is often used in a 12/8 feel, or in beats and fills with a triplet feel. This triplet feel makes it perfect for Jazz, Latin and other world styles.

The swiss army triplet is a unique one-way rudiment that can be played in both right and left hand leads. Unlike most of the other rudiments, this rudiment isn't designed to alternate. As its name suggests this rudiment has a 'triplet' feel.

The flam accent is a powerful drum rudiment that uses the basic flam within a triplet feel. The pattern is great for creative drum fills and solo patterns within a wide variety of musical genres.

In this video drum lesson, you will learn how to take any regular drum beat, and change it up by playing the snare shots with cross-sticking. This is a simple and effective way to dramatically change the dynamics of any drum beat.

This drum lesson gives a complete overview of ghost notes. In it, you'll learn how to identify and play these subtle notes within dynamic drum beats. You'll also learn the difference between ghosted and non-ghosted notes within a looped beat.

This lesson covers some of the most popular punk drum beats. Many of the patterns are relatively simple, but can still be challenging. This is due to the fact that they are typically played at fast tempos when performed in punk rock music.

This video covers six popular funk drum beats that you can use when playing at a funk gig! Funk is a popular style of music that has a lot of similarities to rock, especially as far as drums are concerned.

Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and take your recording in a new direction and change the key of a certain section or the pitch of a note using the Transpose options in Digital Performer music software.

Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and learn how to export audio files in Digital Performer and expose your music to the world in today's most accessible format, the mp3.

Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Berklee professor Paul Schmeling explains how to master the toughest jazz standard with ease and improve your left hand technique by utilizing shell voicings to represent chords in the left hand.

Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Berklee professor Paul Schmeling shows ways to perfect your posture and finger position on the keyboard and play your favorite piano piece with a new level of comfort and ease.

Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Assistant Chair of the Berklee College of Music Guitar Department, Rick Peckham explains augmented and diminished triads.

In this drum lesson you will learn to read the crash cymbal, ride cymbal and toms in drum set notation (music reading). This lessons also touches on the topic of preferred sticking.

Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Larry Bayone, Chair of Berklee's Guitar Department, explains how to find the notes of the guitar scale from memory by practicing the major scale in a variety of different positions and registers on the fret board.

Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Michael Williams explains how to spice up your rhythm guitar playing and get that T Bone Walker sound by adding chromatic approaches to the chords in your favorite blues guitar progressions.

Learn how to count the beats in drum and bass music so that you can mix it properly.

So you have a drum and bass tune with no beat at the beginning. So how can you mix this into another toon when you have no beat? Well watch the video.

This effect just uses the bass, mid, and treble controls to change the music. It doesn't even use any of the CDJ or mixer internal fx.

Here's some advice on how to keep the dance floor full of people throughout the night. If the dance floor is clearing out, change the genre of music.

A look at how you can link up an amplifier to another with only needing one output from your mixer.

The mirror ball is one of the oldest lighting fx used in dance clubs. Learn how to use this effect in you DJ set up.

Learn how to use all the different effects on a mixer and a CDJ turntable.

How you plug one DJ mixer in to another so you can battle or just have a good old mix with your mates with just using one PA / speaker set up.

Modern music has a drum machine to keep the beat steady the whole time. Old school music might not have the same bpm the whole way through, so it is harder to mix.

Before you actually mix the two songs, you may want to "drop" the new song into the currently playing song. This is achieved with the cross fade. The fader can also be used for many other effects.

The producers from recording school online show you techniques for mixing abstract/ambient music.

The producers from recording school online show you techniques for mixing drum tracks.

The producers from recording school online show you a demonstration of how to blend vocals using VST plug ins for mixing.

The producers from recording school online show you how to mix songs to give your songs a better sound.